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I think the progression is interesting. It starts by visualising what 1 gallon equals using something that people recognise in everyday life ... then shows a l
by lwhi 16y ago
I think the progression is interesting.
It starts by visualising what 1 gallon equals using something that people recognise in everyday life ... then shows a lot of 'wow, it really is vast' slides, then moves to 'well, it's pretty small compared to the size of the gulf / how much oil we have in reserve'.
It's not a good example of info-graphics - it's a slide-show with illustrations.
- sdfx 16y agoThere is a place for the "compare to everyday measurements" info-graphics. But as others have pointed out, it doesn't take a genius to understand that one gallon of oil has the same volume as one gallon of milk and 184 millions of anything is still pretty hard to comprehend. And what are they trying to show with the boats? These boats don't even represent known quantities (eg. size of a football stadium, milk container etc.), they only show that some catastrophes were worse, some were less bad. The stadium misses the point, just as the oil reserve by comparison. A comparison of the affected surface area in the first case and a comparison of the production of Saudi Arabia during the same time-frame would be much more useful. Now, the bumper-to-bumper of trucks and the SF-bay graphics are not bad.